the lost baby poem

Clifton, Lucille

Primary Category: Literature / Poetry

Genre: Poetry

Annotated by:
Aull, Felice
Chen, Irene
  • Date of entry: May-17-2006
  • Last revised: Feb-01-2016

Summary

A woman reminisces about and with a child she chose not to have. It would have been born in winter, in a time of financial hardship, perhaps to have been given up for adoption. Sorrow for the child that never was causes the woman to swear devotion to her living children, yet she does not seem to regret her decision.

Miscellaneous

First published: 1972

Primary Source

good woman: poems and a memoir, 1969-1980

Publisher

BOA

Publisher

BOA

Place Published

Brockport, N.Y.

Place Published

Brockport, N.Y.

Edition

1987

Edition

1987